Catalogue·PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 5·1939–1948

Bamboula and Kourion Complex (trenches, palace), Sherds

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 55 of catalogue PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 5 (Bamboula and Kourion Complex (trenches, palace), Sherds), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 5, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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<u>Bamboula</u>

Sh 385<u>L.C.III</u>. Fine cream clay. Lustrous red-black paint.
crackled. With Sh 381

Sh 386 | <u>L.C.III</u> painted. Firm clay with fine sand, light grey outside, warm brown inside. Matt grey-brown paint. Base of flat-based bowl. Tr.2, Unit 1, [left margin: "] 9.59 9.62 - 9.745 9.75. (29-3-37)

Sh 387.<u>L.C.III</u> painted. Rim sherd, possibly same pot
as Sh 386. With Sh 386

Sh 388. | Wheel made painted. Ware rather like Sh 296. Firm clay with some rather large grains of grey sand, smaller lime, red sand, etc. Very thick matt paint of 2 colours. One black, the other mottled, deep brick red to deep reddish-grey clay brown, warmer toward ext., café au lait surface. With Sh 386

Sh 389<u>L.C.III</u> plain ware. Sherd from shoulder of pot
with neck ring & twisted handle. With Sh 386

Sh 390 | <u>L.C. III</u> Bichrome. Warm light brown clay with fine sand, pale sandy surface. Matt paint, grey & deep red. Sherd from shoulder (drawing) Tr.2, Unit 1, In 9.77-9.80 floor

Drawing: label: [solid block] = black; [dotted block] = red.] (20-4-37)

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

Objects named on this pageBamboula (Episkopi)

By the field number written in the record. A number links to the object’s page where we have one, and to the Penn Museum’s record where the museum has it online.

Recorded (6)

  • Sh 385Sherd
  • Sh 386Base of flat-based bowl
  • Sh 387Rim sherd
  • Sh 388Sherd
  • Sh 389Sherd
  • Sh 390Sherd

Also mentionedSh 381, Sh 296

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